Man pleads not guilty to threatening to burn pregnant woman

2:05 AM,
Dec. 4, 2012

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A 23-year-old Marshfield man authorities say doused a pregnant woman with gasoline and punched her in the stomach to try to make her miscarry pleaded not guilty Monday in Wood County Circuit Court.

Tyler S. Ress is charged with first-degree recklessly endangering safety, strangulation, false imprisonment, attempted abortion and misdemeanor charges of battery, disorderly conduct and contact after a domestic abuse order, all as a domestic abuse incident. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of more than 50 years in prison.